"Three monkeys... or maybe Four"

When a tourist gets lost in the Jungle for 20 days.

“Three Monkeys… or maybe Four” is a photography series inspired by the TV show “I Shouldn’t Be Alive” and the story of Mr. Wilson, a tourist lost in the jungle for twenty days. Hunger, fear, heat, and isolation gradually distorted his sense of reality.

Seeing “three monkeys... or maybe four” evokes a misleading vision in which reality can no longer be trusted. The series explores how extreme physical and psychological conditions alter human perception.

Throughout history, technological tools such as microscopes, aircraft, and rockets have expanded human vision, revealing what was once invisible.

In contrast, consciousness, our subjective experience of reality, remains scientifically elusive, while being extensively debated within religions. Altered states of consciousness, such as hypnosis, dreams, and illusions, offer insights into how reality is constructed, fragmented, and transformed.

Photographs document a two-week experiment in the tropical jungle.

To translate Mr Wilson’s both lucid and delirious states, two cameras were used simultaneously : one capturing spectral light, the other rendering temperature variations within the same environment.

Here, the camera becomes an exploratory tool, questioning the reliability of vision and of the photographic image itself.